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Joe – So, what do you think this means to recruits and verbals at the four affected schools? Things like this, to me, are always why I hear, pick a school for the school and the academics and your own general non-athletic reason, not the coach. Will some players and/or recruits typically follow a coach to his new school, in your experience? Are they allowed to?

Believe it or not there were some antsy alumni at Cornell because of last year’s excruciating loss to Cuse in the finals. So now Tambroni starts fresh and can build a program with long term job security.

I don’t expect any recruits to change their commitments. While coaches is a factor in a recruit’s decision, it should not be one of the main ones and there haven’t been too many cases of a player following a coach to a new school. (Although the NCAA’s all-time leading goal scorer, Zack Greer, going from Duke to Bryant with Mike Pressler is one high-profile example.)

Lacrosse is a bit different than basketball or football in that transfers are eligible immediately after transferring and do not have to sit out a year, provided the school they are transferring out of grants a release.

Cornell is expected to name associated head coach Ben DeLuca as its new head coach which should please incoming recruits.

Wouldn’t be shocked if there’s not a bit of pre-selling going on with certain coaches for a potential Michigan job! A real plumb for someone that wants to build a varsity program at a flagship academic and athletic university. When Mich decides to make the move they will go full force!!

So in the 7-team Ivy League there were three 1st year head coaches this past year (Princeton, Dartmouth and Penn) and now two more openings (Harvard, Cornell). The Brown coach turned down the Penn St. job that the Cornell coach accepted. That leaves Andy Shay of Yale as the longest tenured coach in the Ivy and the only one that wasn’t looking to leave (or in Brown’s case, considering) in the past 12 months or so. What does that say about the reality of recruiting and building a consistent winner in the Ivy League? Or is it a matter of simple economics, where coaches are being lured away by compensation packages and/or other considerations that the Ivy schools simply won’t match?

As Joe had noted Ben Deluca was indeed named Cornell’s new head coach. Nice job by the administration to move quickly – a show of support for what the program has accomplished these last few years. It will be interesting to see if Kyle Georgalas is elevated to associate head coach (Deluca’s former job) at Cornell or if he follows Tramboni to Penn State.